Image2Waves v0.1.0

The first development version of Image2Waves, v.0.1.0.

Features in this version include 2 major blocks, which will be the centerpiece around which future releases will revolve around. They are the feature extraction block and the wave reconstruction block.

Though, the feature extraction block used in this version consist of ones that are merely off-the-shelf from OpenCV: the Sobel filter and the Canny Edge Detector. Future versions aim to incorporate more sophisticated techniques such as the inevitable Deep Learning to greatly enhance the features that are extracted from images.

The wave reconstruction block forms the basis of this project, which is to enable artistic re-interpretations of images using waveforms, hopefully bringing new insights to the developer, one of whose several goals is to get better at studying brain activity, and also for the end-users or "visual consumers" to derive deeper meaning from these abstractions. Future versions will see effort directed at increasing the diversity and variability of parameters used in wave reconstruction, enabling full customization of the end-product. Last but not least, optimizations will also be done, in order to shorten the processing time by several factors, eventually catching up to real-time speed.